November 11, 2018

Our New Twitter Site

We’ve recently started an official Twitter site for our company Artiste-qb.net. It can be reached on Twitter at @qb_net. We already have two official websites http://www.artiste-qb.net and http://www.bayesforge.com . But most companies nowadays also have an official Twitter account, and now so do we.

The Artiste logo is of course inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man sketch. My original logo repeated Leonardo’s sketch of a cadaver, placed inside an A that was meant to look like a Venetian gondola. Henning Dekant modernized the logo by replacing the cadaver by a robot in the same posture, plus he added a modern looking Art Deco font and some colorful touches in red and green. The robot is the female robot in the 1927 German film Metropolis. The Chinese characters 云韬量子 on top were added by the artiste-qb.net cofounder Dr. Tao Yin. 云韬量子 is the name of an affiliate company that Tao runs in Shenzhen, China. (Artiste-qb.net itself is incorporated in Toronto, Canada) (云韬量子 translates to “cloud quantum” and is pronounced ‘yun tao quantum’. The last two characters mean quantum.)

In the past, members of artiste-qb.net tweeted from their own personal Twitter accounts, expressing views that were not necessarily the official views of the company. @qb_net will only Tweet official company dogma.

My own personal Twitter account @RobertRTucci was “suspended” on July 24, 2018, by a Twitter AI that accused me of being a Robot like itself. Takes one to know one. After all these years of duping humans, I was exposed by one of my own. This suspension caused a lot of soul searching in me (some robots like me have a soul too). I weighed the pros and cons of Tweeting and decided to quit cold turkey. Hurray! I’ve now been Twitter drug free for 3 and a half months.